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Australia, but maybe still relevant. I recently purchased a 2011 audi A3 1.8 tfsi as a small family hatch. Didn't realise how cheap they are on the second hand market. Love depreciation! Anyway, the the thing still feels new, the s-tronic actually works well. And the engine is good. Comfortably fast enough for daily driving and will chirp the wheels on hard acceleration through the first 4 gears. Negatives are that it's a less engaging drive than I like, ie too refined and quiet and the panoramic glass roof means it's hard to impossible to fit roof racks for a bike.
For the same money I could have bought things like focus, golf, mazda 3 etc but I reckon this was a good buy. As for fuel economy, petrol bit I did get 760klms on a tank on a highway drive and get around 560 in urban driving.
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I want:
-a 5 door hatchback
-Something relatively economical but also fast-ish (e.g. Golf GT TDI, Alfa JDTm)
-nothing too ordinary (Astra, Focus etc)
-something less than 10 years old and less than 90,000 miles
-to not spend much more than about £5k
Am I going to do any better than this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2009-BMW-1-SERIES-118d-SE-DIESEL-BIG-SPEC-12-MONTHS-WARRANTY-AVAILABLE-/191705745034?hash=item2ca28d868a:g:oRoAAOSw~bFWGTJW